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Friday, 6th November 2009

Online OECD Employment Database

Direct links to each statistic on this OECD page.

Access to this database and its data is free of chage and contains data grouped into three categories:

Labour market outcomes

+ Unemployment rates, employment to population ratio and labour force participation rates
+ Unemployment, employment, labour force and population of working age (15-64)
+ Unemployment duration+
+ Discouraged workers

Jobs quality

+ Job duration
+ Incidence of temporary employment
+ Working time
+ Incidence of part-time employment
+ Involuntary part-time workers
+ Economic short-time workers
+ Gross earnings of full-time employees by age group
+ Distribution of gross earnings of full-time employees

Labour market policies and institutions

+ Expenditures on and participants to labour market programmes
+ Strictness of employment protection
+ Statutory minimum wages in 21 OECD countries
+ Union members and employees

Each link will take you to definition of the statistic and then direct links to access the data.

For Example:

1) Select Union members and employees

2) Read the definition

Union members and employees are expressed in units. Trade union density is defined as the percentage of employees who are members of a trade-union.

3) Select data on the number of trade union members and employees and/or Trade union density in OECD countries, 1960-2007. (a spreadsheet)

4) The number of trade union or members or employers data is provided by country, membership/employees and for the years, 1999-2007.

Most other the other data is provided in similar formats. Several lists can be limited by sex, age, and employment status

Direct links to each statistic on this OECD page.

Source: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Hat Tip: Stuart Basefsky


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